Several hundred thousands of seniors in Ontario are left without necessary home care, says Sue VanderBent, the CEO of Home Care Ontario, which represents…
“We lost literally over 3,000 nurses and skilled therapists and personal support workers to other parts of the health-care system,” said Sue VanderBent, the CEO of Home Care Ontario, which represents home-care providers in the province.Article content
Dr. Samir Sinha, director of health policy research at the National Institute on Ageing, said the home care situation is dire. Wage parity can solve some of the problems, he said. Patients can often leave the hospital sooner after surgery if they have home care lined up, they said. He said it costs more than $700 a day to treat a patient in hospital versus $200 a day for someone in long-term care and $103 for home care.
The results have been impressive, Sinha said. The country was able to avoid building new nursing homes for nearly 20 years, closed several thousand nursing home beds because they weren’t needed and saved 12 per cent in overall long-term care expenditures on those 80 years and older.Article contentIn a recent survey of more than 1,000 people aged 55 and older commissioned by Home Care Ontario, 91 per cent said they’d prefer to remain at home if additional supports were available.
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